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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 876963" data-attributes="member: 177">There's no continuity problem here, for two reasons:1)To say, "My ancestors came from there" does not say that every ancestor up until your birth was there.  My ancestors came from Europe.  But, if in 1960 Europe got blasted off the map, I could still be here, as my parents were not in Europe in 1960.  2)This destruction comes from a space probe, probably in orbit. For that, then the phrase "from Venezuela to Florida" probably means in a straight line - Venezuela, Cuba and some Carribbean Islands, and Florida - leaving Central America untouched.Well, shouldn't we see how the story develops before we decide what's plausible and what isn't?  So?  How is this a problem?  Being an officer on a Federation starship does not automatically unlock all clasified data.  If the nascent Federation chose to keep this "temporal cold war" a secret, then Spock wouldn't know about it, and timie travel would seem only theoretical to him.With all the canon-mongers out there, the Romulan War would prove to be a bit of a difficulty.  You see, the canon and apocrypha about the Romulans pose a problem - apparently, the Romulans don't get warp drive until after their first encounter with Kirk.  The ship Kirk first encounters lacks warp drive, and the stories written about the war have the Romulans lacking warp drive.  They eventually trade with the Klingons - cloaking tech for warp tech.  Now, back when that was written, it seemed cool.  But today, anyone wiht any science knowledge will tell you that a war between a warp-capable culture and a non-warp culture would simply be ludicrous.  That sticks the show in an awkward position - do they break canon, and make it a reasonable conflict, or do they keep the canon, but have it be implausible?  Or, do they simply not touch it?  So far, they seem to have chosen the latter, probably not unwise.Plus, how do we know that the "temporal cold war" is not an attempt to work out the Romulan War?  If the Future folks involved are Romulan, and the Xindi are merely Romulan tools, then we're all set, aren't we? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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